EPA Pulls the Plug on Regulating Air Pollution From Giant Livestock and Poultry Operations

The agency says it will suspend efforts, in the works for more than 20 years, to develop measures that would allow the agency to enforce bedrock clean air laws at factory farms.

By: Georgina Gustin, Inside Climate News

Outlets: Sentient

Published: November 6, 2026

Words: 859

Last Updated: 3 days, 10 hours ago

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The Environmental Protection Agency late last week announced it would end a 20-plus-year effort to develop methods to monitor air pollution from factory farms, effectively shuttering the agency’s stop-and-start attempts to regulate the potentially pollutant-spewing facilities under the Clean Air Act.

The announcement came just days before the …

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